On Fri, 11 Feb 2011 19:21:38 -0800 (PST), wrote:

Yeah - might be worth seeing if I can get hold of an old spool of the
stuff on ebay or something.

If you want to do the pikey thing I know where there is a few miles
of 20 pair that could be "borrowed". Trouble is it's direct buried
so would not be easy to pull out, might get BT to replace it with
nice new copper though. B-)

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Cheers
Dave.